Overprecision

Quick meaning: Overprecision is a noun meaning The quality of being overprecise.

Meaning

The quality of being overprecise.

Example Sentences

A-B-C of correct speech and the art of conversation (Harper's A-B-C ser. Harper 50c) by Mrs F. M. (Howe) Hall is a brief but suggestive discussion of the best usage in English, everyday mistakes in speaking, the use of slang, the voice, and overprecision in speech, with a few chapters on acquiring the art of conversation.

The motor coordinations are lost for a moment, all the ways of awkwardness, mannerisms, and semi-imperative acts manifest themselves as a result. This is again the age of the basal — e. g., hill-climbing muscles of leg and back and shoulder work, and of the yet more fundamental heart, lung, and chest muscles " (1: vol. i, p. 165). As during early childhood, now the danger is overemphasis upon the activities of accessory muscles and overprecision.

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